The ReelHeART Spirit Award goes to the filmmaker, documentary or documentary subject who most demonstrates the “Indie Spirit”, through pride of film production, promotion of film, audience engagement and producing a memorable contribution on film. This year we give this award to three people from Team Busking Turf Wars who embody this spirit for their tireless efforts in promoting their film, engaging the public, traditional and social media marketing, going that extra mile – literally with Christy Coysh flying into ReelHeART mid-week and the team’s passion for making their film – This year that Team is from Busking Turf Wars…

ReelHeART Mentorship AwardPhil Peel “Chasing Fame”

For the 2nd year in a row, The ReelHeART Mentorship Award goes to a Filmmaker, Screenwriter whom we first met in 2014. This filmmaker embodies what ReelHeART is all about: Interaction, Inspiration, Creativity, Mentoring and Collaborating with Others. This year we could only give this award to one person who embodies this spirit for his tireless efforts sprinting into action all year long without a break to have his creative voice heard through, films and screenplays after being overwhelmingly inspired by his experience the last 2 years at ReelHeART to the point where in his latest short, he actually cast Toronto actors that he had seen perform in the ReelHeART Live Script Reads. Ladies and Gentlemen, we present to you, from Southampton, United Kingdom– Mr. Philip Peel –

ReelHeART Founder’s Award
“Flow”, dir. David Martínez

The ReelHeART Founder’s Award is presented to the film that embodies everything great to exceptional in a film and being transported to a place by a character(s) and story we simply can’t take our eyes of the screen. Ladies and Gentlemen: Our 2016 Founder’s Award Winner is Director – David Martínez

________________________________________Dance / Music Film Category

No Winners

Short Film Category

1st Place “Reconnection”, Maksim Varfolomeev

2nd Place “At Last”, dir. Anna Skrypa

3rd Place “Maintenance Required”, dir. JC Falcón

Feature Film Category

1st Place “Flow”, dir. David Martínez

2nd Place None

3rd Place None

Short Documentary Category

1st Place “Soul Of A Tree”, Mari Walker

2nd Place “Harry’s Gift: A New York Story”
dir. Alexandra M. Isles

3rd Place “Guilty of Being Black : Paris to Ferguson”, dir. Rokhaya Diallo

Feature Documentary Category

1st Place “Searching for Dragons”
dir. Dan Gainsford

2nd Place “Lost Tongue”
dir. Davison Mudzingwa

3rd Place “Women Are The Answer”
dir. Fiona Cochrane

Honorable Mention

“Dancing Through The Corn”
dir. Thomas Florek

“Rwanda and Juliet”
dir. Ben Proudfoot

“Symbiofaerietaxiplasm”
dir. Georg Vogt, dir. Christian Karst

FEATURE SCREENPLAY WINNERS

1st Place “Speak Easy“ Writer, Joey Perotti

2nd Place “The Lost Sock“
Writer, Tom McIntire

3rd Place “Jack And The Box Store“
Writer, Heidi Fitzgerald

Each Writer will receive a gift of Software from our Gold Sponsor Final Draft

These screenplays will compete for Best Feature Screenplay at ReelHeART 2016. Each Screenplay will get a full screenplay rehearsed Cast-To-Type Live Script Read in Front of a Festival audience on July 06-08, 2016 – 11AM-2PM

These screenplays will compete for Best Short Screenplay at ReelHeART 2016. Each Screenplay will get a rehearsed Cast-To-Type Live Script Read in Front of a Festival audience on Tuesday July 05 – 11AM-1PM